Chasing the Dead

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THE DEBUT THRILLER IN THE BESTSELLING DAVID RAKER MISSING PERSONS SERIES, PERFECT FOR FANS OF MO HAYDER, LINWOOD BARCLAY AND MICHAEL CONNELLY

One year ago, Alex Towne's body was found.
One month ago, his mother saw him on the street.
One week ago, David Raker agreed to look for him.
Now he wishes he hadn't.

Mary Towne's son, Alex, went missing six years ago. Five years later he finally turned up - as a corpse in a car wreck. Missing persons investigator David Raker doesn't want the work: it's clearly a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity brought to him by a woman unable to let go of her son. But haunted by a loss of his own, Raker reluctantly agrees.

Big mistake.

For as he digs deeper, he discovers that Alex's life was not the innocent one his mother believed. Buried in his past are secrets that were never meant to be found - and dark, dangerous men willing to kill to protect them.

Soon Raker will discover that there are things far worse than death . . .


Praise for Tim Weaver:

'Weaver has delivered another cracking crime thriller' Daily Mail

'I couldn't put it down' The Sun

'Weaver's books get better each time - tense, complex, written with flair as well as care' Guardian

'The reader is educated as well as entertained, enthralled and intrigued. David Raker is a most complex and engaging investigator, each case leaving its mark on his soul, and ours' Sunday Times bestselling author Liz Nugent

© Tim Weaver 2010 (P) Penguin Audio 2017

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Praise for Tim Weaver
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Weaver's books get better each time - tense, complex, written with flair as well as care
Guardian
The writing is beautiful and the plot so cleverly constructed I never guessed any of the twists
Sunday Times bestselling author of Local Girl Missing
It had me racing to the end
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Widow
Terrific
Sunday Times
I couldn't put it down
Sun
Weaver has become one of this country's most respected, bestselling crime writers, and he fully deserves to be . . . Catch him at once
Daily Mail
The rising star of British crime
Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of the DC Max Wolfe series
Tim Weaver writes books so meticulously researched that the reader is educated as well as entertained, enthralled and intrigued
Sunday Times bestselling author of Lying in Wait
A dark, complex and visceral read
Financial Times

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